Tag: Naoko Yamada

June 4, 2023 · 0 comments

Liz and the Blue Bird

Liz and the Blue Bird

By Andrew Osmond. Liz and the Blue Bird was released in Japan in April 2018, less than two years after A Silent Voice. It was an ideal film for uniting two sets of viewers; those who’d become aware of Naoko Yamada through A Silent Voice, and those who loved the series she’d been involved with […]

October 6, 2022 · 0 comments

Naoko Yamada & Friends

Naoko Yamada & Friends

By Andrew Osmond. Naoko Yamada is the best-known female director in anime. Most of her directing credits are for TV series made at Kyoto Animation, where she spent most of her career. Her breakout was on K-ON! in 2009. Following that hit, she directed Tamako Market (2013) and Sound! Euphonium (2015), the latter as “series […]

September 14, 2020 · 0 comments

Tamako Market

Tamako Market

By Andrew Osmond. Anime Limited’s release of Kyoto Animation’s Tamako Market carries both the original 12-part TV series and its cinema continuation, the film Tamako Love Story. It’s a tale of the title girl Tamako, her neighbours and neighbourhood, her family and friends. Like many soaps, sitcoms and slice-of-life anime, it offers the viewer a […]

September 4, 2018 · 0 comments

Sound! Euphonium

Sound! Euphonium

By Andrew Osmond. Sound! Euphonium might be subtitled This is not K-On!, and not just as a joke. This series really isn’t another K-On!, though the parallels are obvious. Both shows focus on schoolgirls in music clubs; both were animated by the feted Kyoto Animation with the same broad “look” and palette, and they share […]

December 2, 2017 · 1 comment

Hyouka

Hyouka

By Andrew Osmond. Following the release of the acclaimed A Silent Voice this year, new anime fans may be looking at the backlist of the studio which made it, Kyoto Animation. They may be surprised to find it had a very different reputation before Voice. Its early TV serials often played with “slice of life” […]

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